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I have no real hangup over porn (indeed, I spend days looking at it for work..) but I can see his point.

Apple, understandably, don't want to be in the minefield arena of porn distribution via the App Store - it's a smoking gun in a sense.

This is just a closed product of the App store.

Though it appears Jobs also considers it a moral imperative; which is wrong.

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To repeat what others have said: there is no porn in the Android Marketplace. There is a 3rd party adult appstore. There are also some "girlie" apps like swimsuit model calendars or whatever. Saying "Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone" is not Jobs defending the iPhone but attacking the Android platform.

To be fair; Jobs is commenting about Android - not the Android Marketplace. It feels a distinct difference.

(I wasn't commenting on that anyway tbh)

Total strawman argument. The Android market also doesn't allow porn. See the developer content policy here: http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html.

Not at all. Android is irrelevant to the point I was making.

Sorry, I thought your comment about Apple not wanting to be in the porn distribution business related to Jobs misleading and false implication that the Android Market is in the porn business.

Nah it wasn't. Hosting porn is a potential minefield, one that face I can see why it would be avoided.

Edit; strictly speaking were putting words in his mouth there. He said android not android marketplace. And in that he is strictly accurate.

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